AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Paper 1
A verse or stanza of a song; Dickens calls the five chapters of A Christmas Carol staves, connecting its structure to its musical title.
Revise: ContextIn Stave One, Bob works copying letters; in Stave Three, the narrator describes his wage as ‘fifteen “Bob” a-week’, meaning fifteen shillings a week to support his family. In Stave One, the narrator describes him trying ‘to warm himself at the candle’ because Scrooge controls the coal supply. The inadequate source of warmth reveals how an employer’s decisions shape a worker’s daily life.
- Revise: Plot overview
A verse of a song or poem; Dickens uses the word for each of the five sections of A Christmas Carol, connecting the story’s form to its musical title.
- Revise: Stave One
A verse or stanza of a song. Dickens calls the five chapters of A Christmas Carol ‘staves’, presenting them as the verses of his carol.
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- Revise: Stave Three
One of the five divisions of A Christmas Carol. The musical name connects the book’s structure to its title and to the shared singing associated with Christmas.
- Revise: Stave Five
A verse of a song. Dickens calls the novella’s five chapters staves, presenting them as the verses of the carol named in its title, A Christmas Carol.
- Revise: Scrooge
One of the five divisions of A Christmas Carol. The musical term connects the novella’s structure to its title.
- Revise: The Ghost of Christmas Past
A chapter of A Christmas Carol. A stave can also mean a verse of a song, so Dickens’s chapter naming connects the novella’s structure to its title.
- Revise: Fred
A verse of a song. Dickens calls the five chapters of A Christmas Carol ‘staves’, presenting them as the carol’s five verses and connecting the novella’s structure to its title.
- Revise: Social responsibility
A division of a piece of music. Dickens names the novella’s five chapters staves, connecting its structure to the Christmas song in its title.
- Revise: Redemption
A division of a song or musical composition. Dickens calls the novella’s five sections staves, connecting its form with the Christmas carol of its title.
- Revise: Christmas and family
A verse of a song or poem, and Dickens’s name for each of the five sections of A Christmas Carol.
- Revise: Writer's methods
A verse or stanza of a song or poem; also the lines on which music is written. Dickens calls each of the five chapters of A Christmas Carol a stave, connecting the narrative to a carol.